Walk Well, My Brother
By: Farley Mowat
...It took courage for Charlie Lavery to accept the death of Konala and keep on going without her. Witnessing a death in front of your face can be very heart breaking. Inspired by the sight, and by the previous days they spent together, he still decided to go one and he also became a different man, for example, " When the storm had blown itself out, Lavery buried her under a cairn of rocks on the high banks of the nameless river. As he made his way northward in the days that followed, his feet finding their own sure way, he no longer pondered the question which had lain in his mind through so many weeks." In the beginning he is prejudiced against her based on her primitive culture, viewing her as beneath him. When she offers him raw fish after the plane crashes, he shouts at her, "Eat it yourself...you animal!" The journey he took with Konala shows a change of attitude and the way he looks at the native people. He knows that he has to carry on and change his ways of racism to the native people, or her sacrifice would be for nothing. This short story relates back to my first quote, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Lavery's fear was dying in the middle of nowhere and then eventually losing Konala.
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